Robert Lortac
Robert Lortac shortly Lortac , (born 19th November 1884 in Cherbourg , died 16th April 1973 in Paris ) had stage name of French animation designer, illustrator, cartoonist, comic cartoonist and lyricist, graphic artist, painter and writer Robert Collard .
Life
Robert Collard grew up in Paris from 1889 and studied drawing and painting around 1900 at the Académie Delécluse and with Fernand Cormon at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris . He then worked for various Parisian newspapers and magazines. He made his first humorous (silent) film in 1914 under the stage name Lortac. Collard was drafted as a soldier and was wounded. From 1916 he produced cartoons in his own studio that advertised war bonds. He worked with the cartoonist Émile Cohl , among others . In 1917 he took part in an exhibition promoting the French war aims in the USA.
After the end of the war he produced commercials, documentaries and humorous cartoons in his studio. He sold the studio around 1936 and shifted to writing adventure, crime and science fiction novels. After the end of the Second World War he wrote scripts for other comic artists.
literature
- Helmut Kronthaler: Lortac, Robert . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 85, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023190-8 , p. 335 f.
- Valérie Vignaux : Marius O'Galop, Robert Lortac. Deux pionniers du cinéma d'animation français . Paris: Association française de recherche sur l'histoire du cinéma, 2009 ISBN 978-2-913758-60-5
Web links
- Robert Collard in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lortac, Robert , at BNF
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lortac, Robert |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lortac; Collard, Robert (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French cartoonist and animator |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1884 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cherbourg |
DATE OF DEATH | April 16, 1973 |
Place of death | Paris |